The Osceola times., 1887-06-18
OLIVES AND PRUNES.
Expensive Foreign Fruits That Can lie
Grown Perfectly In This Country.

Grown Perfectly In This Country.
The Treasury Department received a
letter the other day from some South
ern man who advocated the raising of
Olives in the South, claiming that it
could be readily and successfully ac-
complished. An examination Of the
records of the Treasury shows that a
good many million dollars worth Of
olives and olive oil have been imported
into this country in the past few years,
and that the demand is constantly in-
creasing. The popular taste has been
so educated that olives. which W
years ago were only consumed by few
are now a popular article of diet. You
find them everywhere. At the lunches
and dinners in fashionable society they
are quite the thing. and the individual
who does not eat olives is considered
of rather doubtful social rank or train
ing. In view of this fact. that we pa
million or so year for foreign
olives. took occasion to call upon
Prof. Van Ness. the head of the pew
Pathological Division of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, and had . talk
with him about it. There is M trou-
BILE at ALL" he said, "about glowing
olives in this country. They already
grow them in the South in 4 limited
way; but in the West thet are doing
the most in that line. II Southern
California they grow to perfection
The trees bear when they are onlt
three and four years old, and are fairl. /.
loaded down with the fruit. T'.e
olives are of the very best quality, to.
There are many varieties Of the olive.
and as many qualities as there are OF
apples or any other fruit. The olives
of Southern California are of the best
and the olive oil which they make T.
equal to the best that we get from
abroad. There is no reason why we
should send any money abroad foi
oil es or olive oil. We can produce
them, as we can produce about all kinds
of fruit, in this country"
yet we do send about sl4, 900, 600 q
year abroad for fruits
"Yes, but we ought not 10 do so.
Now look here" he id, turning to a
table just beside him. Here ara
prunes from the coast of Oregon. They
are as fine as have ever seen imported
from any source. and they may be pro-
duced in quantities 10 suit. We inn
port Ga, ,0l0, 900 pounds. over $1,000, 900
worth, of them every year. Here are
raisins, also from the Pacific Coast, as
fine as the best that comes to us from
abroad. We import nearly 10000, 600
pounds a year of raisins at a cost of
about 5000, 600. There is 20 reason
why we should not raise every pound
of them at home. Look at these
oranges" he continued, pointing 10
long line of plates piled with the
golden fruit which came from Florida,
Louisiana and the Pacific Coast; "tkcy
are as fine as are produced in any part
of the world. There is no reason why
we should ask any other part of the
world for pound of citron. yet we do
import nearly a, 900, 600 worth a year.
Bananas we can produce readily. yet
our importations of these amount to
couple of millions a year. Even cocoa.
nuts. which are supposed TO be only
tropical product in the strictest sense,
are now successfully produced in Flori-
da. Washington Cor. Cincinnati Times.
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Heart disease is an affection t.
which nine-tenths of the animals In
confinement are subject Among ele'
phants the most common and fatal OF
many diseases is rheumatism; monkeys
and baboons generally die from
bronchial affections and heart disease;
felines, such as lions, tigers, leopards.
stc.. from dysentery and heart disease;
deer, antelope, etc, suffer most from
aysentery and heart diseases; while
wolves, dingoes. foxes and other
CANNES seem to be subject to no par
ticular disease. These. at least, are
the observations Of DR.. Chapman
Boston Budget.
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